Designing and Programming Survey Forms

Data, Democracy & Development (DDD) summer field practice course

Ayush Patel

At Azim Premji University

05 May, 2025

Hello

I am Ayush.

I am a researcher working at the intersection of data, development and economics.

I am a RStudio (Posit) certified tidyverse Instructor.

I am a Researcher at Oxford Poverty and Human development Initiative (OPHI), at the University of Oxford.

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Learning Goals

Get a working understanding of how components of survey tech work.

Design and program a survey questionnaire to make it available for field use.

Extract the collected data for analyses.

Build an intuition on how to ask questions.

What we will not cover

Advanced methods of communicating with servers using API.

Data encryption for sensitive data.

Building data pipelines that extract, clean and present analyses.

Sampling theory, and analyses.

Components of survey tech

and how it works



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